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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
June 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM

Tough Conversations

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I have a confession. I love the questions that make people squirm. Not because I enjoy watching folks squirm. But because the questions that make politicians hedge and suddenly need to "circle back with their team" are almost always the ones that matter most. Is climate change real, or just a "hoax"…
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  Casten for Congress · [email protected]
May 31, 2026 at 2:35 PM

sorry, but it’s 🎶🎶 Closing Time 🎶🎶

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Yeah, yeah, we know this is cheesy…but now it’s stuck in your head, so won’t you sing along? Closing time, it’s our May fundraising deadline, And we haven’t quite made our goal. Closing time, help Sean past the finish line So he can hit the ground running in June. Closing time, one last ask to close…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM

my finance team made me do it

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Look, I'll be straight with you, folks. This email wasn't on my agenda today. I had every intention of giving your inbox a much-needed rest this weekend. But my finance team flagged something I can't ignore: we've got a fundraising gap heading into our end-of-month deadline, and the clock is running…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM

The Second Law of MAGA Thermodynamics 🔬

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Bear with me, friends. The engineer in me needs a moment. There's a principle in thermodynamics called entropy. In plain English: systems left to themselves tend toward disorder. Things fall apart. Without new energy coming in, the whole thing degrades. Sound familiar? That's exactly what's happenin…
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May 27, 2026 at 8:07 PM

angry men in robes

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Friend, Make no mistake: the agenda of this Supreme Court and the agenda of the Ku Klux Klan are far too similar. Gutting the Voting Rights Act, blessing gerrymandered maps designed to silence minority voters, and declaring that we now live in a "color-blind society." These are the kinds of actions …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM

Look on my works, ye

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A traveler from an antique land once described a shattered statue, half-buried in the sand. This was all that remained of a king who'd called himself the greatest of them all. I've been thinking of that story a lot lately. Percy Shelley wrote Ozymandias in 1818, but it’s never been more relevant. Ty…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 21, 2026 at 9:30 PM

allow me to reintroduce myself

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Hi! Sean Casten here. Congressman. Engineer. Dad. Amateur pianist. Certified '90s rap enthusiast. And yes, the guy who once recited Fergie lyrics on the House floor to get people to care about clean energy legislation. I also make my own fermented hot sauce from scratch every fall. If that tells you…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM

Look on my works, ye

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A traveler from an antique land once described a shattered statue, half-buried in the sand. This was all that remained of a king who'd called himself the greatest of them all. I've been thinking of that story a lot lately. Percy Shelley wrote Ozymandias in 1818, but it’s never been more relevant. Ty…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM

your electricity bill just went up. here’s why.

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Since Trump took office, household energy prices are up 13% nationwide. Some of that is policy. Some of it is the fossil fuel industry doing what the fossil fuel industry does. And some of it is energy traders who manipulate markets for profit, knowing the penalties are light enough to ignore. That’…
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May 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM

the House Rules 🃏

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In a casino, the House always wins. In our House, the one at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the rules seem to change depending on who’s dealing. That's why the news that White House lawyers are preparing for a Democratic Congress caught my eye. Someone in that building finally did the math and real…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM

the point of no return

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Friend, last week, The Guardian published an article that stopped me cold. New Orleans is at the point of no return. Scientists say relocation must begin now. Even if we stopped climate change today, the city's fate is already sealed. You can't keep an island below sea level afloat. There's no amoun…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM

You’re my y-axis

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I'm a science nerd. You know this. Half my floor speeches come with a graph. So let me put it in terms that make sense to me: Every graph needs two axes. On the x-axis, you've got time, races run, miles logged, fights picked on the House floor. On the y-axis, you've got value. The thing that goes up…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM

$6 for IL-6?

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Right now, I’m: Fighting to lower your energy bills while MAGA hands out tax breaks to oil execs Pushing back on national security threats while Trump's crew cozies up to foreign governments Introducing legislation to protect your healthcare, your wallet, and your community Showing up to town halls,…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM

he ran 26.2 miles faster than I run my mouth

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Folks, Did you see what happened at the London Marathon last week? Sabastian Sawe just ran a marathon (all 26.2 miles of it) in under two hours. A new world record. By a lot. I've run 10 marathons. My personal best is not under two hours. It is not even close to under two hours. Let's just say I had…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM

6 Months.

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As a scientist, I spent years studying systems that operate on timelines humans find uncomfortable. Climate change doesn't care about our attention spans. Neither do elections. Six months from today is Election Day. Will you chip in $6 right now — one dollar for every month until November — to help …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM

You deserve the truth.

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I’ll be blunt: April hasn’t been easy, and I don’t just mean this campaign. Every day in this political climate is a new fire to put out. We’re in the midst of chaos, cruelty, and creative accounting with the Constitution, and asking you for money in the middle of it all isn't something I take light…
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  Sean · [email protected]
April 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM

a fish, a felon, and an end-of-month deadline

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In recent years, fighting for choice, science, democracy, and truth feels more and more like we’re swimming against the current. How can we tackle climate change or public health when half of Congress pretends it doesn’t exist? Or uphold the rule of law, when President Convicted Felon just pardons h…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 28, 2026 at 8:50 PM

They're gaming the Court. I wrote the fix.

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In 2016, Chief Justice John Roberts used a secretive procedural maneuver, with no oral arguments, no written reasoning, and no signatures, to kill Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan before a single lower court had even weighed in. It took five days. One paragraph. And it set a precedent that's been use…
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  Sean · [email protected]
April 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM

thinking of you

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Thank you. I'm a scientist by training. I believe in data, evidence, and facts. But no spreadsheet or FEC report can fully capture what it actually means to have people in your corner when the fight gets hard. You are those people. When the news cycle feels like a fire hose aimed directly at your fa…
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  Sean · [email protected]
April 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM

four quick things

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This is my short list of reasons why your support matters in this race. Will you read on? (And if not, can I trouble you to make a quick $4 donation to my 2026 re-election campaign?) 1. House Republicans voted 214-213 to let Trump keep waging war in Iran with no congressional authorization required.…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM

I hate Earth Day.

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I'm going to let you in on a dirty little secret. I kind of hate Earth Day. Now, before you close out of this email, let me explain. I hate Earth Day for the same reason an engineer hates a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a bridge that's still structurally unsound. Celebrate the progress? Sure. But don'…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM

My 2026 campaign playlist 🎧

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Friend, you know I'm a music guy. I love Springsteen and Bon Jovi and classic rock. But lately, the news cycle has me reaching for a wider range of influences. So I put together the official soundtrack to my 2026 campaign, an honest, slightly chaotic playlist that reflects where we've been and where…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM

This email is only 8 sentences long.

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I know your inbox has been a bit hectic lately. Mine too, honestly. Before you head out for the weekend, here's what I can tell you in plain English: Trump and his allies are coming for seats like mine in their quest to hold the House majority. They have deep pockets, and the only thing standing bet…
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  Sean · [email protected]
April 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM

relevant for today

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Here's what Donald Trump bought with your tax dollars this year: A birthday parade. A ballroom. Hotel bills charged to the Secret Service. Settlements for people who lied to the FBI. Payouts for people who attacked my workplace. Ads with Kristi Noem on a horse. $700 million, give or take, without au…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM

out with the old 🌱

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Spring cleaning isn't just for your garage. Washington is overdue for a serious scrub-down too. And I mean seriously overdue. While Trump and his allies spend their days burying the truth in junk, gutting healthcare, and stacking the courts with corporate insiders, we're building something cleaner, …
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  Team Casten · [email protected]
April 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM

$6 for IL-6

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Right now, Sean is: Fighting to lower your energy bills while MAGA hands out tax breaks to oil execs Pushing back on national security threats while Trump's crew cozies up to foreign governments Introducing legislation to protect your healthcare, your wallet, and your community Showing up to town ha…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM

Congress must fix the Supreme Court

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Hey, I wrote this piece for The Hill because the Supreme Court crisis isn't abstract anymore. It's the foundation of every other political crisis happening right now. Immunity for Trump. Gutting Chevron. Striking Roe. A court that answers to no one is how everything else gets locked in permanently. …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM

my Q1 report card (I graded myself)

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I never met a data set I didn’t want to analyze. Ask anyone on my staff. Ask my family. Ask the constituents who have sat through my deep dives on FERC regulations. So as we kick off the second quarter of the year, I did what any self-respecting nerd would do: I graded myself with full transparency,…
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  Sean · [email protected]
April 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM

"Liberation Day" one year later

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Friend, A year ago today, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden holding a poster board and declared April 2nd “Liberation Day.” He announced the largest tax hike on American households since 1993 and called tariffs the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.” I’m an engineer. I speak in data. So one…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
April 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM

no, this isn't an April Fool’s joke 🎪

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Friend, April Fool’s is supposed to be the one day a year we can mess with each other. Sadly, the MAGA caucus has a 365-day monopoly on that market. In honor of this fine holiday, I’ve put together a list of things that sound like April Fool's jokes but are tragically real: The government’s official…
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  Sean · [email protected]
March 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM

still need you

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Friend, Just bumping up the email I sent you a few days ago. The short version: we're behind, and a few hours is all we've got left. If you've been on the fence, this is me asking one more time, genuinely, not from a script. Will you chip in $25 right now before our deadline hits? If you've saved yo…
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  Sean · [email protected]
March 28, 2026 at 8:06 PM

I’m going to be blunt.

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Friend, I'm behind. And I'm not going to pretend otherwise. This month's fundraising has been slower than we needed it to be. With three days left until our FEC end-of-quarter deadline, we're not where we should be, and I feel it. I know there's a lot competing for your attention right now. Believe …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM

cleaner + cheaper

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Folks, As a former clean-energy CEO, I know firsthand how the fossil fuel industry depends on corrupt politicians to keep their competitors out of the energy market (which in turn keeps prices high). I also know how volatile the fossil fuel market can be. The price of gas or the cost of electricity …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM

we did it! now for the hard part.

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Friend, I've spent my whole career proving that science prevails. On March 17th, IL-06 proved that the scientist does too. We won the Democratic primary because you made it happen. Thank you. Genuinely. I don't take your support for granted for a single second. But the MAGA machine? They haven't tak…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM

if, if, if....

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If you've ever looked at your energy bill and wondered why we're still subsidizing Big Oil, I need you to pitch in. If you've watched Trump hand the economy to his billionaire buddies and felt your blood boil, I need you to pitch in. If you still believe this country is worth saving from the people …
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM

who's holding Trump accountable?

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Folks, let me tell you what Congressional oversight looks like right now: A former DOGE staffer allegedly copied the personal data of 500 million Americans onto a thumb drive. Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed to testify before Congress about the Epstein cover-up…and refused. Trump fired eve…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM

next time you’re at the pump ⛽

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Friend, next time you're at the gas station, wincing at $3.84 a gallon, remember this: April 11, 2024. Mar-a-Lago Trump sat down for a closed-door dinner with 20 of the country's biggest oil executives — Chevron, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum. The ask: raise $1 billion for his campaign. The offer…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM

we did it!

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Friend, I've spent my whole career proving that science prevails. Last night, IL-06 proved that the scientist does too. We won the Democratic primary because you made it happen. Thank you. Genuinely. I don't take that for granted for a single second. But the MAGA machine? They haven't taken a day of…
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  Sean · [email protected]
March 17, 2026 at 1:35 PM

I don’t need luck today. I need you.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Today also happens to be my Primary Election, which means two things: I could use a pint. I need you more than I need luck right now. I may have been born in Ireland, but I’m a scientist at heart. I don’t believe in luck. I believe in math: more doors knocked, more voters re…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM

sending a strong signal

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Listen, I’m going to be straight with you. Tomorrow’s primary isn’t keeping me up at night. What is keeping me up? Billionaires running the government while working families can't catch a break. Environmental protections getting gutted while we walk away from our clean energy future. Democracy slipp…
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  Sean · [email protected]
March 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM

2 days.

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Two days. That’s how long we have to get every last vote across the finish line. I’ll keep this short: We need to raise an additional $8,500 before polls close on Tuesday to fund our final round of voter contact. Phone banks are running. Doors are getting knocked. But we need your help to make it co…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM

why I’m still in this

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Folks, three days out from the Primary, I want to be honest with you. I didn't plan on being a Congressman. I’m an engineer. A clean energy entrepreneur. A guy who gets way too excited about carbon markets and grid infrastructure at dinner parties. (My family has the patience of saints.) But I looke…
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  Congressman Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM

Your primary voting guide (+ a quick ask)

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Happy Friday! The IL-06 Democratic Primary is four days away. We're in the final sprint. We’re running ads right now to cut through the noise and make sure voters know what's at stake on March 17th. Can you chip in? Donate Before you head out for the weekend, here’s what you need to know to vote: Pr…
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  Team Casten · [email protected]
March 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM

final countdown [9 days]

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Folks, we’re exactly NINE DAYS out from Sean’s Primary Election Day here in the 6th Congressional District. Will you pitch in $9 or more to help Sean close the deal in the final stretch? Chip in $9 Chip in $20 Chip in $50 Chip in $90 Chip in $150 Other Amount This primary will determine if Sean is t…
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  Congressman Sean Casten · [email protected]
March 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM

We can restore moral & legal order to America

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Friend, the events of the past week are a powerful reminder of why we need experienced, competent, compassionate people in charge of our government. We need leaders who understand that the Constitution is the source of America’s strength, not an obstacle to be trampled. If we are serious about build…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
February 27, 2026 at 8:08 PM

[insert dramatic subject line here]

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Listen, this is not going to be one of those emails where I compare a campaign fundraising deadline to an actual crisis. We have more than enough crises to worry about right now. I’m just going to make an honest, drama-free request that you chip in $25 (or more) to help me win my primary on March 17…
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  Rep. Sean Casten · [email protected]
February 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM

my bill would lower your bill 📉

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Folks, As a former clean-energy CEO, I know firsthand how the fossil fuel industry depends on corrupt politicians to keep their competitors out of the energy market (which in turn keeps prices high). These anti-consumer, anti-common-sense policies are the reason energy corps raked in record profits …
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  Team Casten · [email protected]
February 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM

2 major endorsements

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With less than a month to go before his IL-06 Primary Election, Sean Casten has officially secured endorsements from the Daily Herald and the Chicago Tribune. “On all these matters, the congressman is an articulate speaker with opinions built on thoughtful reasoning and solid research. No serious ob…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
February 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM

why I’m skipping the SOTU

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The State of the Union is a bipartisan American tradition which fulfills a few key purposes: Reminds us that we’re Americans first; a house united. Gives the president an opportunity to articulate their vision for America. Sparks good-faith debate. Tells the world that the president has the full fai…
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  Sean Casten · [email protected]
February 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM

1 dollar is half the battle

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I know this team appreciates my candor, so I’m going to be totally transparent with you. In the grand scheme of things, against a MAGA money machine that seems to print cash faster than the U.S. Mint, one donation to my campaign is like a drop in the bucket. Now that might sound like I’m not gratefu…
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